What You Should Bring to the Meet
- Apparatus. Make sure your athlete has everything she needs to perform her routines.
- Cash. Everyone, who is accompanying an athlete to the meet, has to pay admission to the gymnastics facility. It’s typically $12 – $15. You might also want to buy a program ($5 – $10), souvenirs, printed T-shirts and hoodies or even rhythmic gymnastics apparatus items, which are usually for sale in the gym during the meet.
- Camera. Make memorable pictures of your athlete, team and coaches to capture one of the most important events in your daughter’s life – her first rhythmic gymnastics meet. Please remember that no flash photography is allowed during the competition. By the way, many professional photographers have permissions to shoot during rhythmic competitions, and they offer their services to parents of athletes. The photographer should be paid in advance. Your rhythmic gymnastics school will let you know if professional photo shooting is available at the meet.
- Hairbrush, hairpins, hairspray, make-up kit… everything you need to make your gymnast groomed and ready for the competition. And, of course, you should try yourself as your daughter’s personal makeup artist and to learn how to make a perfect gymnastics hairbun before the competition. You still have a lot of time to do this!
- Additional pair of half-shoes – If you daughter’s half-shoes become even slightly wet, which often happens when girls forget to change shoes when going to the gym’s bathroom, she will unlikely to be able to perform nice turns and spins on the carpet. Besides, a half-shoe can rip at any moment so it’s better to have an extra pair.
- Tracksuit to keep your gymnast warm after she’s done with routines. It can take long time to wait for the awards and most of the gyms are pretty cool, especially in winter.
- Water and healthy snack for gymnast – Gymnastics competitions usually last for a couple of hours and your daughter will be very thankful if she can eat something nutritious right after the competition. Check out our Gymnast’s Nutrition Guide to find the healthiest snacks for your athlete and to learn which food can help her maximize performance.
Providing children of
Miami with an opportunity to participate in rhythmic gymnastics competitions is
a top priority for IK School of Gymnastics in Miami. To reach this goal we
offer gymnasts of Miami our award-winning competitive Rhythmic Gymnastics
Program and recruit elite gymnastics coaches from throughout the
world.
Here, at IK School of
Gymnastics in Miami, we know how confusing may be the first gymnastics meet. If
your daughter is getting ready to her first gymnastics meet this year, take
your time to prepare to being the best gymnastics parent for her during
rhythmic competitive season 2016. To help parents of our gymnast get extremely
positive competitive experience and be a fantastic gymnastics parent at the
meets, IK School of Gymnastics in Miami prepared A Parent’s Guide to Gymnastics
Meet.
The first part of the Guide, published in our
previous blog post addresses the following issues:
- Being familiar with rhythmic gymnastics calendar
- Paying competition entry fees
- Getting detailed information on the meet
- Planning your visit to the meet
- Understanding meet schedule
The second part of AParent's Guide to Gymnastics Meets is about issues listed below:
- What you should bring to the meet
- Things to do after you arrive at the gym
- How to cheer up your gymnast during the meet
- Meet etiquette for parents and gymnasts
All of this together is
meant as a general guideline to help you and your athlete with the most frequently
asked questions about rhythmic gymnastics competitions in the USA. If you’ll
have any questions after reading the guide, please don’t hesitate to contact IK School of Gymnastics in Miami. We’ll do our best to
make your competitive experience be as far positive and rewarding as possible.
IK School of Gymnastics
in Miami hopes this can be a good guide for parents of competitive gymnasts to
make first meet gymnastics competition exciting for your athlete. You can be
sure, when your gymnast enters her next competitive season, you will be already
an experienced parent, who can distribute tips for having the best competitive
experience. If you have any questions about your daughter’s first gymnastics
competition, please, do not hesitate to contact us.
www.ikgymnastics.com
Phone: (786) 350-6655
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